Dr. Elizabeth Mayne

Clinical Laboratory Services, University of the Witwatersrand

Elizabeth Mayne is a specialist haematologist and pathologist with a special interest in immunology and HIV-associated malignancy. She currently runs the leukaemia and lymphoma immunophenotyping and immunohaematology services at the National Health Laboratory Service which provides diagnostic support to a large geographic area including 6 of the 9 provinces in South Africa and neighbouring countries in Sub-Saharan Africa including Namibia and Botswana. She is a national expert on flow cytometric techniques for diagnosis of malignancy. She is extensively involved with training scientists, medical students and residents in benign and malignant haematologic conditions and tumour associated immunology both from South Africa and from other countries in the African continent and has supervised a number of masters projects related to HIV, immunology, haematology and malignancy. She has been involved in national policy formulations for pathology and is committed to providing affordable pathology health care to the largest number of Africans.She is a member of the executive of the South African Immunological Society, a member of the National Expert Committee on Immunology and Chairs the National Committee for Registrar Teaching and training. Dr Mayne is also involved in a number of research projects examining HIV-associated conditions including HIV-associated malignancies, HIV-associated non-communicable diseases and opportunistic infections including Mycobacterium tuberculosis.